by Yarov'am ben Nevat

In Judaism, racial consciousness is overwhelming. The Jewish splitting of the world between yehudim and goyim is well-known, but less known is that the Torah itself calls the Jewish nation a goy, in Exodus 19:6 for example:, W'goy qadosh, a holy nation. The goyim are the nations, the Gentiles, and the Jews are appointed as a chosen goy.

I lost my Jewish deen for many reasons, but chief among them the failure of the Bible to stand up to human and linguistic history. On the linguistic side, the Bible offers the ridiculous notion that the languages of the world were formed by an act of creation at the Tower of Babel, while we know that the variety of languages is the result of evolution (same as with the origins of life). Genesis 11:1 has this:

Wayhi khol ha-ares safa ehat udvarim ahadim
And the whole land was one language and one speech

Rashi, Rabbi Yehuda Itzhaki, the greatest commentator of the Torah (paralleled by Jalaal ad-Deen as regards the Qur'an) glosses "one language" as "the sacred tongue" (lashon ha-qodesh), meaning Hebrew. Such thinking, meaning that Hebrew is the Adamic tongue, the mother of all tongues, is clearly a primitive ethnocentric concept which science has all but overthrown.

The origins of the nations trace our descendancy to three ancestors: Shem, Ham and Japheth (Yefet). Well, these are obviously the Semites, the African Hamites and the Indo-Europeans, but it leaves a few people out, such as the Chinese (a meager population of 10⁶ humanfolk). The Biblical racial concepts and genealogies have caused rabbinical tradition to attribute origins to races which are obviously a fruit of symbolical imagination.

The first two patriarchs, Abraham and Isaac, have the strange fortune of begetting both a saint and a sinner. The sinner becomes the father of a nation which is in perpetual enmity with the Jews.

Ishmael is said to be the father of the Arabs, which is fair enough. According to the commentators, God permitted Abraham to drive Hagar and Ishmael away because he was found worshipping idols and was liable to be a bad influence on Isaac. It is later told, in the Midrash (the external commentaries), that Ishmael repented and returned to monotheistic belief. I believe that this Midrash originated after the rise of Islam, in order to explain current events.

Esau is said to be the father of Amalek, but also of the Romans, which is quite laughable (the Indo-European Romans descended from a Semite?). The red-haired Esau was characterized as Aryan, therefore as European and, later, Christian. Jesus, the one who according to the Midrashim perverted Judaism and hellenized it into a European religion, is regarded as the prime servant of Esau, one of the most hated characters in Judaism (note that the great Islamic polemicist Ahmed Deedat also saw a small connection between Esau and Jesus, [1] [2]). The Jewish Agada (legend) says that when Rebecca was pregnant with the twins Jacob and Esau, Jacob would kick wildly whenever she was near a synagogue whereas Esau would kick wildly whenever she was near a house of idolatry. The only problem with this legend is that there were no synagogues in Rebecca's time...

Exodus 17:14 says the following:

Ki maho emhe et zekher 'amaleq mittahat hash-shamayim
For I shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens

Leaving aside the absurdity of this statement (as long as the Bible stands written, Amalek will be remembered), the history of Amalek in Jewish eyes is a long and interesting one. In 1 Samuel 15:9 it is written that Saul showed mercy towards Agag the king of Amalek. His action had two consequences, one immediate and one long-range: Saul lost his crown to David, and one of Agag's descendants was Haman, the minister of Ahasuerus the Persian (but not in the Qur'an: there Haman is the minister of Pharaoh. A slight communications failure occurred when Muhammad was downloading the Qur'an from Allah's Homepage).

Haman's plot was to destroy all the Jews. His plot failed, but it was hinted that in the days of the Messiah a descendant of his would almost succeed. Thus unfolds a great genealogical drama in Judaism: Haman the Amalekite, a descendant of Esau, is a Persian, an Aryan. To my utter astonishment I found the Aryan race actually mentioned in the Bible, in that same book of Esther. In chapter 9 of Esther there is a list of the sons of Haman who were hanged on the tree. One of them is Aridata , whose name, I found in an encyclopedia of the Bible, is the Persian Arya-Data, meaning "Born of the Aryans". Modern Jewish rabbinical interpretation regards Hitler as the descendant of Haman who tried and nearly succeeded in destroying all the Jews, with his superiority of the Aryan race, and this is a sign of the times that the Messiah is coming, according to those rabbis.

There is, however, a final preclusion on the coming of the Messiah. According to mystical rabbinical sources, the Son of David will come only after the fall of Ishmael. That is, according to the rabbis, the war between Israel and the Arab states will be consummated by the destruction of the mosques on the Temple Mount, an atomic bombardment, the coming of the Messiah and finally the renewal of the Temple and its sacrifices.

And the Christians, those who believe in the message of Esau ibn Sharmoota, are anticipating, for their part, the final battle of Armageddon. Armageddon is Har Megiddo, the mountain (rather hillock) of Megiddo, in Palestine. My mother's sister lives a few kilometres east of Har Megiddo. Whenever I tell Christian goyim I've got an aunt near Armageddon, I get a wide-eyed stare. But it's true.

Inna l-Laata 'ala kulli shay'in qadeera
Indeed Al-Laat is capable of all things